Originally Posted by TwistedChief (Post 17924789)

You beat me to this! I'm so confused. DJ was spitting venom toward the Bills.

I don't mind Buffalo at all. I actually like Josh Allen and love the way he plays. They have a good fanbase, they're a small market team, and they've had years of heartache. At the playoff game last year their fans were - with the exception of one guy - completely friendly and gracious.

But yeah, like DJ, I thought they'd be the better matchup for us so I'm happy we get to meet them again.

Originally Posted by ChiTown (Post 17924818)

Was it a function of turning them loose or deciding who you are going to let beat you? The way the Texans covered Kelce (or better, didn’t cover him) kinda answers that, IMO. It’s like they took away DHop and Hollywood and said beat us with the old Man and the rookie…and we did. I don’t know. Maybe I’m way off on that analysis.

Originally Posted by mr. tegu (Post 17924827)

It was definitely them deciding to focus coverage on the WR. I think we realized that quickly and removed basically every WR route from the middle of the field to allow Kelce as much space as possible.

Originally Posted by TheGuardian (Post 17924770)

This game really makes me nervous.

I think the defense can hold Buffalo to 24 or less, the issue is, the offense is bi-polar and def came out rusty this past weekend for sure.

If we get the offense we saw in Pitt or in the first Texans game, that would be great. But the offense has just sputtered most of the year, then found a way in the 4th.

The problem was, when the defense wasn't stopping the Bills the sputtering on offense means we lost by 9.

This game will be tougher than the SB because neither the Commanders or Eagles are as good as the Bills. This is it.

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 17924823)

It's all relative.

If Buffalo beats us, I suspect the crowing of their fans will have me turning against them the same way I turned against Boston fans (who were the enemy of my enemy w/ the Yankees) after they beat the Cardinals in the 2004 World Series.

I went into that Series content that if they beat us, at least I didn't hate them.

Then by the end of the series I hated the entire franchise and city. It could well come to that with Buffalo as well.

But as it presently stands, they're just too much like us.

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho (Post 17924779)

You don’t understand? When the Chiefs have shown a history of holding back plays and unleashing them in the playoffs?

Did we see the Chiefs spamming Tom and Jerry/Corn Dog in the regular season to pump up red zone conversions during the regular season the past two years? Or did they break those out for key spots in the playoffs?

Did we see the Chiefs spamming run-pass options with Mahomes before the playoffs, ever?

You’re going to tell me they haven’t worked out a counterpunch to the “crash the line with power rushes to the QB’s left hand, spy prepared to chase Mahomes when he scrambles right” tactic the Chargers pioneered and the Bills used in many key spots in the regular season?

It’s one of the reasons KC has been able to amp up its red zone efficiency so much in the playoffs, even back to the 2019 run. They had what was, to some, concerning “conversion rates in the red zone, and then in the playoffs they turn into an ultra efficient red zone TD machines while breaking out shit from a Rose Bowl in the 1940s.

Spagnuolo has done it, too - saving a major tendency breaker look for a must-have spot in the postseason.

People expect some new wrinkles because new wrinkles have come out every year.

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 17924803)

I know. But then I realized that I still hate the Bengals fans more than them in all that.

Yes, I'm always going to mock their Vaginitis for that whole Hamlin thing. And I still laugh when I see that guy playing for them because he is BAD at football and the only reason they haven't cut him is because of the PR blowback (they KNEW he was bad at football before he died on the field, now they just pretend he isn't).

But there isn't a franchise/fanbase in sports with a closer parallel to the 2017 version of the KC Chiefs and their fans. Right down to their hatred of New England (I mean c'mon, throwing dildoes at Brady is just classic).

They'd be our cousins to the East if we didn't have to go through them. And vice versa -- they embraced us as the guys to end the Patriots dynasty until we actually did it.

Of them, Baltimore and Cincy, it's just not a close question. To say nothing of our Division rivals. They're just much less hateable than those guys.

Originally Posted by htismaqe (Post 17924857)

I hate Bengals fans far more than any other fan base so that's not really a fair comparison for me.

I want to say I hate Bills fans but jumping through tables, fingers in buttholes, throwing dildos, and covering each other in ketchup and mustard isn't just weird, it's kinda sick. The situation between the two teams might be similar but they're not like us.

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 17924813)

The team just looked so vanilla in that matchup, though.

But yeah - ain't gonna have a good time next week if Brown and Hopkins get shutout and 90% of our receiving yards to our WRs comes on throws behind the LOS.

The offense has to be better. I just don't know at this point what to say about it. My position has been all year that it's Mahomes that makes it all make sense, for good and bad. When the offense isn't good, it's largely because he isn't. When it's good, it's because he is.

And what decides if he's good or isn't is just a complete wild-ass guess at this point.

Originally Posted by RaidersOftheCellar (Post 17924862)

I wouldn't say the Texans game was a bad offensive performance. They were a little rusty to start, but 23 points in 7 drives is pretty good. And like Chris Simms said, it kind of throws off the gameplan to start in the red zone.

3.3 points per drive. Scored on 5 of 7 drives vs a great defense that was built to exploit KC's weakness. The same effort probably translates to 30+ vs the Bills. Their defense isn't even close to Houston's level.